Dendrodrilus subrubicundus (Eisen, 1874)

Rota, Emilia, Schembri, Patrick J. & Omodeo, Pietro, 2017, Earthworms of Malta (Annelida: Clitellata: Acanthodrilidae, Hormogastridae, Lumbricidae), Zootaxa 4311 (2), pp. 287-291 : 289

Dendrodrilus subrubicundus (Eisen, 1874)

St. 12, 2 ad., 1 juv.

New record. Litter-dwelling species, common in the Holarctic. Together with congener D. rubidus (Savigny, 1826) in its amphimictic and parthenogenetic forms, it is frequent in cave habitats. The vast majority of the lumbricid worms identified by Pop (1968) in Racovitza & Jeannel's Biospeologica Collection belonged to Dendrodrilus , with frequency in samples triple than for Eiseniella tetraedra . Novak et al. (2015) found D. rubidus tenuis in percolating water drips in a cave in northern Slovenia, drifted there from an unknown subterranean habitat above the passage where the samples were collected.